Charlie Feehan had a hard life before he won the Ballarat Miles competition. The protagonist was already in a difficult position at the start of the novel. After his father has passed away, Charlie had to ‘stepped into long the pants of adulthood’ and take on the responsibility of a grown up. This shows that he had to step in and be ‘…the man of the house’ at a very young age, whereas nowadays teenagers were barely independent even after they have graduated for university. In Charlie’s conditions, even a rabbit stew or a warm water bath was to be looked forward to on a Saturday night and warmth was from the ‘…pieces of fallen bark’ which he gathers from Mr Peacock.
Kindria Cheatum English 101 TR 11:00~12:15 Final The Vow In Jarrett David Lee Jackson short story, “My Father’s House,” the main topic is an eleven year old boy realizing his father that he known all his life is a disappointment, and vowing never to be like his father but to be a better man than his father. The reason for this is his father is the person who initiated the breakup of their family. Because of this situation, the son is forced to become the man of the family at an early age. In this dilemma, the boy must accept the new change that has arose in his life. After he accepts the sad truth that his family will not be together, and that he’ll be left to take the role as the men of the house.
The title reinforces that any death no matter how small it is still heroic. Shooting stars creates imagery in the reader’s mind it could mean the shooting of the Jews adorned with the star of David. Duffy uses haunting imagery and makes every word do memorable that it prepares the reader for the rest of the poem. In the first stanza education for leisure illustrates the personas feelings and frustration towards its current status. The opening line “today I’m going to kill something” evokes a shocking and chilling image of the poetic persona.
Correspondingly in the Volunteer Asquith uses language to present the power and fulfilment of joining the war by saying that life before was ‘Half his life’’. This shows the distinct lack of fulfilment in the clerk’s life before going to war as it is as if war would complete his life and therefore if he were to die at war at least he would have lived a completely fulfilled life. Both The Volunteer and The dead use the structure of the poem to show how the war changes men’s lives for the better. The Volunteer uses the first stanza to show how drab life was before war and the dead uses the first stanza for a similar reason to present life as less ‘glorious’ before death. However it should be noted that the Volunteer is significantly more optimistic and idealistic of war than the attitudes presented in The Dead and An Irish Airman Foresees Death because Yeats is more preoccupied with the pleasure that flying brought to the soldier, ‘ impulse of delight’, neither of
All these texts explore the concept of one person’s ‘truth’ in relation to another’s. The collection of poems constituting Birthday letters was created by Ted Hughes over a twenty plus year period following the suicide of his early wife Sylvia Plath. The single, internal perspective offered by Hughes’ poetry was always brand to be contentious. Ted Hughes poem, ‘The Shot’, gives his detailed perspective on Plath’s personality and her life in general. Hughes imposes the idea that Sylvia’s father was responsible for her instability through use of personification, “when his death touched the trigger.” Hughes talks of how Plath’s paranoid state caused destruction to the people she loved and whom loved her.
This is exposed through “Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifle rapid rattle” the repetition of “only” emphasises that the men will only be honoured by the sound of war and gunfire. Personification of weapons demonstrates the power they have to destroy young lives. Owen recreates the sounds of battlefield with aural imagery, onomatopoeia and alliteration. Owen uses both alliteration and onomatopoeia to further empathise the firing of the guns.
weep!'" could be used in place of the word 'sweep' because the child could not pronounce the word, which once again tells us that the persona was very young when he was forced under circumstances that could not be helped to enter the trade. The following line, "So your chimneys I sweep, & in soot I sleep" reiterates the state of conditions he is confined in- spending his entire life in ashes and dirt instead of having a beautiful childhood, thus indicating the start of his shattered childhood. The word 'your' suggests that the intended audiences of the poem were the adults who engages
His only solution to escape sadness is to leave the living to join the world of the dead but at this moment of the play, Hamlet his not able to take this decision yet. 1. To live among the dead : a deep mourning This passage is the continuation of the previous one but it’s the very first time that Hamlet is alone on the stage, addressing both God and the audience in a monologue through which he expresses his sadness caused by the loss of his father. a. The praise of a dead father In this excerpt, Hamlet makes a short description of his father which can be seen as a funeral oration, even though it does not take place on the day of his funerals.
A path through old age, eroticism, enlightenment, and dissatisfaction, brings the reader to a field a fragile truth that reveals the starry sky of an aged master’s hopeless wisdom and desire. Before delving into the discussion of the collection at hand, we must illustrate a brief history of the author. Leonard Cohen was born on September 21st, 1934. He grew up in Westmount, the upper-middle class neighborhood of Montreal. Though born into a privileged community, his childhood was tragically abrupt with the death of his father in the winter of 1944, thrusting a nine-year-old boy into the psychological responsibilities of, “the chair at the head of the table.” This central event of his youth bequeathed a rationale for his art, as he states that, “deprivation is the mother of poetry.” Raised a Jew, Cohen grew up in the presence of, or lack-there-of, G-D, and this struggle influenced his creativity through to his more recent interest in the study of Buddhism.
In the poem “Elegy For My Father’s Father” by James K. Baxter, the grandfather is described with themes of lack of understanding and regret. Through the use of different imagery ,diction, and the structure of the poem James K. Baxter is able to present the idea of misunderstanding and admiration from the poet him self Themes of lack of understanding and regret are present in this poem and are primary components in the relationship between the poet and his grandfather. Even in the title, instead of saying ‘grandfather’ he says “My Father’s Father” showing that Baxter did not understand his grandfather well and feels distanced from him. The personification “his heart had never spoken” shows the lack of communication between the man and the people around him as the heart is the poetic emotional Centre of the human and that has not “spoken”, the grandfather of the poet has never shared emotions with anyone and keeps all of his thoughts and feelings inside himself “never” emphasizing his silence and lack of expressing emotion. Because of this lack of communication, not even his own family understands him.